GUARDIAN/ Long Read/ M. Power
"Colombia's conflict is a three-way standoff between the leftist FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) guerrillas, the government, which is represented by the military, and paramilitary groups founded by wealthy Colombian landowners. And swept up in this conflict in the most brutal manner are ordinary families."
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